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MEDIA ADVISORY:	September 1, 2000
Contact: Jim Manke - University Relations 956-6106

This Week at the University of Hawai'i Events at UH Campuses for the Week of Sept.3-Sept. 9

Sept. 4 Labor Day. No school. All UH offices are closed.

Outreach College International Cinema features the film screening of "Taste of Cherry," by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostam. The 1997 film, which won the Grand Prize in the Cannes Film Festival, is about a man whose search for someone to help him commit suicide leads to his discovery of new aspects of human relations. 1:30 p.m. Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6-7. Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall 12, UH Manoa. Suggested donation: $3 general, $2 students and staff. Call 956-3836 for information or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.

UH Manoa Pacific Islands Studies and the East-West Center present "The Politics of Tuna Management and Conservation: Negotiating a Multilateral Fisheries Regime for the Central and Western Pacific," a seminar by Sandra Tarte of the University of the South Pacific. The lecture will focus on the Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Central and Western Pacific. Negotiated by fishing nations and Pacific Island states for three years, it builds on a much longer history of tension and conflict between coastal states and those nations that have traditionally dominated the tuna fisheries of the region. Noon Sept. 6. Burns Hall 4005, UH Manoa. Call 956-7700 or e-mail ctisha@hawaii.edu.

Dr. Mere Roberts, an assistant dean for Maori in the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland, will discuss "Science and the Sacred: Issues for the 21st Century." Roberts serves on the Maori advisory committee for the Environmental Risk Management Authority, which regulates all research on genetically modified organisms in New Zealand. She will discuss how this authority often clashes with Maori traditions and culture. 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Sept. 6. Center for Hawaiian Studies, UH Manoa. For information, call 956-2658 or e-mail m.roberts@auckland.ac.nz.

Recipients of the University's Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research and other teaching awards will be recognized at the Pride 2000 Convocation ceremony. 10 a.m. Sept. 7. Kennedy Theatre, UH Manoa. For information, call Jim Manke at University Relations at 956-6106.

UH Manoa Department of Anthropology will offer a colloquium almost every week during the fall semester. This week's lecture, "Ethnic Identity and Nationalism: Tibetan, Muslim and Han Chinese Nationalism in the People's Republic of China," will be given by Asian Studies Associate Professor Dru Gladney. 3 p.m. Sept. 7. Social Science 345, UH Manoa. For information, call 956-8415 or visit www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth.

Outreach College presents the Honolulu premiere of the award-winning, acclaimed play from Japan whose successful English-language version successfully debuted last year on Broadway. After a motorcycle crash in present-day Tokyo, two bumbling comedians are reincarnated as kamikaze pilots in August 1945 in "The Winds of God (Kamikaze)." Sept. 8-16. Mamiya Theatre, St. Louis/Chaminade campus. Tickets available at Tickets Plus outlets or charge by phone at 526-4000. Visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu for more information.

"Drawing 2000 - Stretching the Point" is a unique exhibition created by 23 local artists who were given blank 14-foot-high walls and identical drawing kits to indulge their creative fancies. Challenged with limited quantities of common materials - charcoal, chalk and tape to name a few - the artists executed their works on the walls two weeks before the show's opening. Now-Sept. 22. UH Manoa Art Gallery. Several artists will be available to discuss their works during the last two gallery walk-throughs: noon Sept. 7 and Sept. 10. The gallery is closed Saturdays and Sept. 4, Labor Day. For information, call 956-6888. Visit www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/Drawing2000 for artists' biographies.

"Korean Masks from the Ryun Namkoong Collection" features more than 100 traditional Korean masks used in dance-dramas, shaman rituals and carnivals. Free. Exhibition viewing times: 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays, noon-3 p.m. Fridays. Now-Dec. 29. John Young Museum of Art, Krauss Hall 002, UH Manoa. For information, call Outreach College at 956-8866 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu/JYMuseum.

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